As Frank Lloyd Wright’s enduring legacy continues to influence innovators to create a more beautiful and sustainable world, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation introduces Taliesin Next, a new speaker series that explores how Wright’s legacy can inform the future. The speakers of Taliesin Next present their ideas through a variety of perspectives as diverse as the great architect’s multifaceted legacy.

“As we embrace the rich history of innovation and social good at Taliesin and Taliesin West, we also explore what this can mean for our future,” said Foundation President and CEO Stuart Graff. “With Taliesin Next, we’re inviting the community into this conversation about how to live and build better.”

Over the course of seven weeks, speakers—beginning with Graff—will travel from the past to the future of Wright’s legacy through topics such as the quest for sustainability, Wright’s interchange with Japan, and understanding how our cognitive experience of the built environment shapes our lives. Most talks will take place in Taliesin West’s Music Pavilion, complementing the School of Architecture at Taliesin’s lecture series.

“With this array of discussions hosted by both the School and the Foundation, we’re thrilled to welcome the community to Taliesin West, Wright’s desert laboratory, for engaging, forward-looking dialogue,” Graff said.

Taliesin Next Winter/Spring 2018 Schedule

February 27 – Organic Architecture and the Sustaining Ecosystem,

Stuart Graff

March 6 -Natural Mimicry and the Quest for Sustainability

Matthew Salenger, Austin Trautman, Eric Watson

March 14 – In Between Space: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Interchange with Japan

Ken Oshima

March 21 – How the Built Environment Shapes our Lives

Sarah Williams Goldhagen

March 24 -Why Historic Houses Matter: Part 2 (In collaboration with Modern Phoenix)

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